Kichae

Because there is zero trust that this won’t be a one-sided liberalization, in favour of the fascists.

“We’re the front page of the Internet!”

“No, not like that…”

I bet door-to-door salespeople would make way more money if they could just break into your homes, leave their junk on your table, and steal your credit card, and yet we don’t let them do that.

Right. But when the bar is owned by a Nazi, your options for pushing them out of the bar becomes a lot more limited.

“Reviewers” need to understand that, unless they paid their own money, from a bog-standard store, on or after release day, they are not reviewers, they are hired spokespeople.

The reasons why the wealthy like liberalisation matters, though. The reasom the wralthy want more wealth matters.

Money is power. The wealthy are competing to have the most power. Eventually, that turns to taking control of the state. So, the wealthy will back free trade and deregulation right up until they, personally, are in a position to attempt a coup. After that, regulation and trade barriers work for the particular rich folk who have taken control over the state.

I think it’s dangerous to imagine people follow these folks, or let them run rampant over society, because they aspire to be like them. That makes it so much harder to really understand why people support them, or even just refuse to tell them “no”, and makes it impossible to do anything about it.

People believe that life is a meritocracy. Even when they themselves can look around at the people near them and see that those in positions of power don’t deserve it, they still view society as a whole as “fair”. Yes, they personally have may have gotten screwed over, but, in general, the people who float to the top got there because they were smarter and more capable. Therefore, we should sit back and just let them cook.

They need some kind of trigger to see the billionaires not as people who have earned their place, but who have stolen it.

There is no reason to even suggest that AI ‘means well’. It doesn’t mean anything, let alone well.

They don’t own it yet

Remember, boys and girls, Steam bringing its monopoly to Linux is a victory, but wanting literally any other closed source software is “pathetic”.

Yet another reminder that the worst thing about Linux is its users.

Because they ran out of logos that look like all-seeing robotic eyes

It’s like someone showed him a plastic toy mallet and it’s the only tool he’s aware of in his toolbox.

Ah, he thinks choosing to take our balls and play with each other, rather than him, is against the rulesv I see. Can’t wait to see how this plays out.

Like, I know this is what Poutin planned to happen, but what does Donny Dorko here think the end result is going to be?

Bingo.

You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, but you can bust skulls over the rank hypocracy of the tech CEOs.

It’s been a long time coming. Their “American Exceptionalism” thing has been leading this way for decades now. They’re just not smart enough anymore to keep their fart sniffing and xenophobic comments among themselves anymore.

Techbros killed me, Mal.

No new president will successfully patch this over. It will take decades.

It’s not Trump. It’s the US voters who have proven themselves unreliable partners in international affairs.

There are also just a lot of personalization options that just aren’t there, particularly for power-lite users, because Linix power users use the terminal for everything.

Like, heaven forbid you want a full featured, advanced file manager or something, but aren’t interested in learning bash scripting…

Their own server, or their own router? They’re different.

They seem to know something about marketing, and specifically about how to sell a website to the public, which would put them ad odds with everyone else running AP-based websites.